NATS 1700 Chapter : The Mainframe Computer Era
14 May 2013
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James w cortada, in alfred d. chandler, ed. [overview: first minute of the computer revolution at 9:00 a. m. , april 21, 1952, at bell. [knowledge workers and the professions: knowledge workers are generally thought of as individuals who work with information. Add in specialization and increasing rates of change, and one has the making of a more complex and evolving economy in which reliance on machinery to do more of the work became inevitable. 1980s: the explosive growth in computing came with the personal computer, with that one development we could begin to speak about ubiquitous computing, although by 1999 only a third of u. s. homes had personal computers. Paul ceruzzi, a history of modern computing, ch. [univac --p. 27: march 31st 1951, the eckert-mauchly division turned over the first univac to the us. Census bureau: this began the era of commercial sales of large scale stored-program computers in the.
